Festival’s Brazil focus will also count on the presence of thesps Alice Braga (“Lower City,” “On the Road”) and Jose Wilker (“Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands”), samba guitarist Paulinho da Viola, and a five-pic tribute to Carmen Miranda, born in the Douro Valley region. It will screen Sundance Audience Award winner “Senna,” a non-fiction portrait of Formula 1 racing legend Ayrton Senna from Brit documaker Asif Kapadia.

Ruzowitzky attends for a special screening of his 2008 U.S. Academy Award winner and international break-through “The Counterfeiters.”

Douro will also showcase Oliveira’s 1963 “The Hunt” and “The Rite of Spring,” made one year earlier.

A 20-minute short, “Hunt” is a grim tale about two young boys battling for survival after one is trapped while on a hunting escapade.

“Spring” marks Oliveira’s tour de force return to filmmaking after a 9-year absence. A color feature film that blends fiction and documentary, it portrays an annual passion play in a small village in Northern Portugal, that links the crucifixion to the horrors of the burgeoning Vietnam war.

The Douro fest aims to world preem at least one Portuguese film a year, Dias said.

This time round, it unveils Swede Solveig Nordlund’s “The Death of Carlos Gardel,” produced by Portugal’s Luis Galvao Teles.